Jeff Taylor was the keynote speaker at the Birmingham Venture Club’s annual meeting today at the Sheraton Birmingham ballroom. He sat down with The Birmingham News before the event, and I thought he definitely had a lot of good things to say. Some highlights: Today’s young entrepreneurs have many more opportunities than he did...
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It just got a little better to be a student in the Birmingham Public Schools. The City of Birmingham will receive more than $450,000 in federal stimulus money to create a computer technology program, according to The Birmingham News. The money from the Commerce Department will fund a two-year Digital Connectors Program and a...
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Birmingham, Alabama, is looking for a few good leaders to step up to the plate. According to The Birmingham News, the Birmingham Business Alliance, Operation New Birmingham and the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex are in search of top executives. These people will help shape economic development in the seven county metro area, in downtown Birmingham’s...
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If you’re able to turn your passion into a paycheck, you’re one of the lucky ones. Birmingham’s own Michael Brown is one such person. Simply a fan of good coffee, Brown will soon be celebrating his one-year anniversary of his coffee roasting company, Jittery Coffee Cup Roasters in Argo, according to The Birmingham News....
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There are many principles in the Dale Carnegie Golden Book that help teach us how to be friendlier to others — that we can all agree on. Carnegie suggests that we “give honest, sincere appreciation,” “become genuinely interested in other people,” and “make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely.” If...
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Sometimes, you just come up with a good idea that sticks — or, in this case, stretches. April Mraz, aka the design diva, and Cherie Stine, aka the sales check, founded the Birmingham-based company OCG Products LLC, which produces a product called Stretchy Shapes. These types of bracelets have become a sensation of sorts...
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Social Media is sweeping around the world extremely quickly. You can’t go anywhere without hearing about Facebook or seeing a LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter logo on something. It’s an amazing time to be alive. Our kids who are growing up with this don’t know any different. This is just the way it is. And...
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According to a news article from The Huntsville Times, women business owners are making their mark in the area. Women’s Business Center of North Alabama President and CEO Joanne Randolph told the newspaper that 74 percent of the 2,700 individuals the center counseled last year were women. So the next logical question is: why?...
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Birmingham-based Ina Stone recently published a book called “CEO Speaks: Sage Advice During Turbulent Times” — a book that features 44 business and nonprofit leaders from around the country, who Stone spoke with one-on-one. According to The Birmingham News, she was inspired to write the book after listening to Fort Lauderdale businessman Richard Clark...
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So you’ve heard about the Dale Carnegie Course. Maybe some of your friends and colleagues have taken it, and they’ve said great things. But how do you know if it will benefit you? How do you know if it’s worth your time? Enter: a free webinar hosted by Dale Carnegie Training of Birmingham, Alabama....
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